October 25, 2024 • 34 mins
As our “And Then There Was Shawn” recap approaches, and the gang preps for what many believe is the best Boy Meets World episode ever, we first had to find out what the fans think.
After an open call for voice memos with your opinions, memories and hot takes, Danielle, Will and Jensen (producer/husband of the podcast) react to your reactions! Some found it legendary, some found it skippable and others were reported to their school for disturbing imagery
Anyone could be the killer - even you - as we kick off a multi-episode celebration on Pod Meets World!
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Okay, guys, I know you have very little prep for this,
but I am very excited. I, as the keeper of
the audio, have have some special messages for you too.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh okay, we should.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We at least explain why Writer isn't here, since the
messages are also for Writer.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Well, sure, we don't like him. I think it's time
to get that out. I think it's time to.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Just it's been so obvious.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
It's been so obvious. I've wanted to say that to
him since when did we air nine?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
When?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Nineteen ninety three? Yeah, four days before that in nineteen
ninety three is when I wanted to say to Writer enough.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, Writer is a teacher.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
He is a proper and he has lectures, and he
was so kind to do that so much episode for us. Yes,
and so we are doing a duo episode and giving
him a quick break.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But we will relay all of these messages to him.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We will. Yeah, well we'll handwrite them, we'll manuscript it,
it'll hand it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Over, a bird will send it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah. So what we did, and I know you guys
are aware of this, is we went to our social
media with and then there was Sean approaching and we
know that that is a lot of people's favorite Boy
Meets World episode. Ever, Yes, yeah, we've heard it many times.
It feels like maybe the most costumes that we saw
while on tour, or maybe from the screen episode. You
guys have regularly answered that it was the most fun
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episode to tape. Yeah, So we asked listeners of pod
Meats World to send us audio clips with either how
much they loved it and how it's their favorite episode,
or how it's not their favorite episode, or just their
own hot takes on the situation.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Okay, great, we have people saying it's not their favorite episode.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What brother jin We got a bunch of them. But yeah,
do you want that's a good question. Actually, guys, do
you want to start with someone who loves it or
someone who doesn't think it's the best one?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Good question? Well what would you why?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I say surprise us. I say surprise us.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's a good idea, Just surprise.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Just surprise us.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Let's start with Courtney, who sent us a voice memo
and she had some feelings about it.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
I am of the generation that watched Boy's World on
Disney Channel after the original airing. I was born in
nineteen ninety and I will say that. And then there
was Sean. Seemed to always play late at night when
I could have sleep, and then I would watch it
and I would definitely not be able to sleep. I
had a cousin who's year younger than me, who loved
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scary things and was so scared of And then there
was Sean. We call it The Scary Boys World. We
don't call it by the title. It's just The Scary
Boyis World. And even at thirty four years old, I
am not quite sure. I want to watch that episod
by myself in a dark room, but nothing, It's still scary.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I mean, I am surprised by how many messages
we got of people who purely one hundred percent are
terrified when they thought as a kid, well.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Because they were kids. I mean again, think about you're
watching it, you're ten or eleven, You've got Feenie being
snabbed in the back. Those songs are super creepy. Yeah,
it was weird, I mean, but you know it was
good though.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right, here's here's Felicia's similar vibes.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
So I watched and then there was Sean when I
was twelve years old, and the night that it aired,
I was having a sleepover at my house with a
couple of girlfriends, and of course, at twelve years old,
we just thought it was scary and fun and just
loved it and we felt so cool watching it. And
I remember when it was over, we were going down
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the hall to get ready for bed, and my dad
thought it would be hilarious to go cut the power
to the break her system for the whole house, and
I just remember screaming and being so scared because we
had just watched this episode. And of course then my
dad turned the power back on and we all had
a really good laugh. But it's just one of those
fun memories. I look back super fondly on this episode
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and it's quintessential appointments world.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Okay, so it just goes to show you you are
either a Courtney or you are a Felicia. Because Felicia's
dad cut the power, I would have been scared to death,
and she was. But then theara all had a good
laugh and it's like a core memory of hers. And
then there's Courtney, who watched it one.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Time and that today has never been able to watch
it again.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I love stories like that. My brother, my brother and
his friends were watching The Exorcist at our house when
they were like thirteen and we had just gotten a
brand new TV. And one of the things this TV had,
which none of us knew because it didn't exist at
the time until these TVs came out, was a sleep timer.
Oh yes, which he did not know what it was,
so he had sat under remote control before he turned
(05:03):
on Exorcists. So sixty minutes into Exorcists, it started to
blink thirty twenty nine, twenty eight, and it counted down
till it shut off. Oh and when this happened in
nineteen eighty five or whatever it was, it was a revelation. Oh,
my brother has never been the same ever since.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Hilarious.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Thank you Felicia, and thank you Felicia's dad for making
that fun.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yes, I do have one crazy story like that. There
was a six Feet Under episode that was very, very
scary where one of the characters got carjacked and tortured
for the entire like hour show, and it's like it
kind of went out of format and it was super scary,
and I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I had
bad dreams about it. And the next day, the absolute
next day, I ran into the actor who was the backer.
(05:45):
Oh my god, and he was weird and it was
like it was he didn't act a lot in the show.
It was just very much him. See yeah. Very next day,
while we're on the terrified subject, this is Danielle.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Hi.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
My name is Danielle. I'm from Boston, Massachusetts. I remember
being ten years old and watching this episode of Boy
Meets World and then there was Sean, and I remember truly,
truly being extremely scared of it. I was not a
horror movie fan. I had never seen a scary movie before,
except maybe Jumanji, and I was truly very scared, to
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the point where at the last commercial break, I ran
upstairs and begged my brother to please come watch this
episode with me because I couldn't finish it by myself.
I was too scared, and he was busy or watching
something else, so he said no, So I turned it off.
I couldn't finish it. I was too scared. And then,
many many years later, in reruns, I finally got to
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see the ending, and to this day it's my favorite episode.
It should win all the Emmys.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I love.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
And then there was Sean.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Wow. I like that idea.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I think we should I think there should maybe every
five years there should be an Emmy Awards that's just
old episodes.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
We think you missed the retroactive Emmys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yes, retroactive Emmys.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I love that idea.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Why don't How did I mean, if you think about it,
you could argue Bill Daniels could have been nominated for
Boy Meetrol I.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Think one hundred percent yep, and no one would look
at it because you were a kids show.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Rusty could have been nominated for Boy meetorl I mean really,
there were plenty of opportunities for our show that we
never got because we were a quote unquote kid show.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Retroactive Emmys.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's scary, Okay, imagine being nicky.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Oh no, I was around eight years old when I watched,
and then there was Sean on TV, and all I
remember was running into Will and at the time Jennifer
Love at the Burbank Mall, literally a week after the
show aired, and my brother and I, who have been
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such big fans of the show, we're like just freaking
out seeing the two of them in person after watching
that episode, and it'll forever be a core memory because
both were just so nice to us and very friendly
asking us if we were fans of the show, and
we told them that we were excited to see literally
probably the best episode of Boy Meets World Pod Meets World.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You guys rock, Oh awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
So what happened to you with the carjacker? Happened to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Happened to her?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I wonder if you guys were aggressively making out just
in the middle.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Of the food court, just hot dog and a stick
on one hand and love Hewett and my other that'd
be great.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
My favorite part of that is that immediately I knew
it was real. I was like, ball, Yeah, when Danielle
like online someone like I met Danielle Fisher once. It
was at the Islands in Orange, and I was like, definitely,
what happened?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's a true story.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, the Red Robin in Calabasash you better you met
here there. Another scary message we got is from Aaron,
and it's mostly just reminding us how old we are.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
I had this episode playing on my MySpace page back
in the day, and that should just tell you everything
you need to know.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Play an episode on MySpace.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Think you could run like a video, like when someone
goes on your page I think you can automatically start
you get to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Like geez, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Well she never did MySpace or Facebook in my entire
life ever once. Yep, I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You do have bloom or Facebook vibes, though, so I'm
surprised you never signed up.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Never one time, Nope, never one Time's.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Here's Natalie, who really took her love for the episode
one step further than anything else I've ever heard of.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Hi there, this is Natalie calling in from Milwaukee. I
was actually born in nineteen ninety four, but became obsessed
with Burmeet's World, I guess through the Disney Channel reruns
of the early two thousands, and it was super popular
at my school, so much so that specifically with and
then there was Sean, Me and a group of like
(10:04):
seven other kids performed a ten minute version of the
episode that we cut. I don't know that's a copyright issue,
so so sorry if it is. But we were eleven,
so it was not that good, and it got a
really great response from what I remember, so it's just
so iconic. I think it's probably the perfect Halloween episode.
(10:27):
But anyway, thank you so much love the pod and
much love to you guys.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, sorry, I hate to tell you, but I'm going
to have to go back and sue you.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I was just about to say we love you, and
you'll be hearing from our lawyers sending.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You a season desist immediately.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
No, you are love and.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's so the talent show. Way to take it up
a notch.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I love that they were. We were like big in
the school at the time we were, and again that
I think that's kind of normal. I guess second run Disney.
I think we were more popular on our second run
than we were on our first.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But I don't know, but that think we were because
a lot of people like that. We run into hall
at a Disney.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Show, right, yes, yeah, just go to the channel man
Power Disney Channel.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And you guys Got Another Life. Then on MTV two
and then on like ABC Family and like you I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And now Disney Plus we're gonna be Gilligan's Island. We're
going to be on somewhere for Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We're on Nicked night, right we were we?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, isn't that cool? Well, I know it's cool. Yeah,
that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Wow, while we're talking about schools, here is Maddie.
Speaker 12 (11:43):
Hello to my truly favorite podcast as ever.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Danielle will and Ryder.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
I'm a high school English teacher in Australia and my
year eight students's next assessment was to write their own
play based on the mystery genre. So I showed them
and then there was sean because it just perfectly laid
out the typical mystery genre of conventions such as foreshadowing clues,
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a detective type character, red herrings, the pacing, and a
big reveal at the end that I forgot how scary
the episode actually is. I had about four students let
out a really loud gasp and even sort of shut
their eyes when the killer was wandering the corridors. But overall,
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the students absolutely loved the episode. They were silent when
it was on, which is a huge rarity for them,
which was awesome.
Speaker 13 (12:42):
So thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Man. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's so cool?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
That's showing us in an Australian classroom.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh no, And I love that kids were actually gasping.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Gasping, yes, oh man. In Australia, the horror goes in
the opposite direction, right.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It starts with the killing and then he learned the
killer you.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Learn exactly so oh man, that's so cool, just tough.
Sometimes I forget that we're watched all over the world
like that and it's so neat.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
We did get a lot of messages, and by the way,
I guess it is worth noting we got thousands of messages.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, wow, I had.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
To go through them. Another funny part about this, our
merch company emailed us and told us their mailbox is
full of audio messages, so like they couldn't even get
direct inquiries because so many people had just accidentally emailed
our merch company. What I have no idea. Between Matt
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and the Peanut Butter and Jelly debacle, we have Susan's fault.
We had like four or five thousand new emails, which
is really nuts. Let's stay in school here for a second.
(14:12):
Here's Lauren Hi.
Speaker 13 (14:13):
Danielle Hi Will Hi writer. My name's Lauren. I'm a
huge fan of the pod and a boy meets World's
super fan.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It is my mash. I absolutely love.
Speaker 13 (14:22):
And then there was Sean.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I think it's a great episode.
Speaker 13 (14:24):
It's fun, it's spooky, it's campy, there's some Halloween vibes.
I love that there's a horror movie parody element to it.
I think that's really fun. But my particular specific memory,
I guess rather about this episode is being eight years
old and seeing it for the first time and absolutely
loving it, and deciding to draw some scenes from this
episode on a piece of paper at school, along with
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the lyrics to that song that plays in the hallway,
the welcome to John Adams High song, and I foolishly
left this behind for a teacher to find with no context.
I don't think it helped that this was relatively soon
after the Columbine tragedy. Oh, so I was dragged into
the guidance counselor's office the next day.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
My parents were there.
Speaker 13 (15:05):
Everybody was kind of tense, and I just had to
simply explain to them, Hey, this is from my favorite
TV show, Boy Meets World, and they all breathed the
sigh of relief.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Oh my, no, man, the greatest. That's the greatest story
of somebody having a childhood experience based on an episode
of Boy's World I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh wow, welcome Juja and Adams.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Hi where you are Gonna die?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Hold on, let me introduce you to Josha.
Speaker 14 (15:37):
No oh, Shawnee boy. The ghost, the ghost was calling.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
From room to room.
Speaker 14 (15:48):
You barely made it out alive, but when you saw
your face, your family saved your grace and then you
made it out a love. Best boy means world ever,
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best episode ever, best twist ever.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Keep it up, y'all, rock What song is that he made?
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Danny?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He made it up for but he put it to
Danny Boy. Oh, Danny Boy, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The commitment.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I love the commitment. You know us, we love it.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You're right, he may be committed after that. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, And we go across the pond again.
This is for Abigail.
Speaker 15 (16:39):
Hi, guys, it's Abigail from Derbyshire in the UK. I
would have been watching Boy Meets Field on the Disney Channel,
as that was the channel it aired on in the UK.
It was always on at six point thirty pm every evening.
So whenever I think of Boy meets Field, I always
think of having a bubble bath, getting in my pajamas
and going to bed. I should clarify that I'm not
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thirty two years old, so I'm talking about a time
when I was seven years old, which is when I
started watching the show I remember being completely captivated by
and then there was Sean. I think it was the
first time I'd ever seen something with a key juxtaposition
of horror and comedy elements, and just remember really loving
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it from start to finish. I did remember thinking at
the time, though, surely it's got to be a two
part of tonight, because I don't see how they were
going to wrap everything up in twenty minutes, and I
remember being really tense, hoping I wouldn't have to wait
until the next night to find out what happened or
find out what the twist was. Weirdly, I actually ended
up studying film studies in college, which I know Rider
(17:42):
will be pleased to hear, and I always opted for
the modules related to horror and was really interested in
that intersection of horror, comedy and pop culture and just
the whole idea of storytelling in general. And I now
actually work in marketing, so I do use those skills
most days and say thanks. And then there was Sean
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for kickstarting something creative in me.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Geez, that's awesome. I don't buy the accent, but the
rest of it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Also, we're not telling you writer or anything no.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
No, writer, I'll never hear these. No, that's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Ever since I said we were on Nick at Night,
I started to doubt myself. I'm ninety nine percent sure
I remember hearing we were.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Are we not on nickod Knight?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, then we did.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I did a quick Google search to see if I
could if I could find it, and I haven't really
been able to find it. So now I'm worried I
just said something that was untrue. And you know, nothing
keeps me awake at night. Then if I think I
accidentally said something that may have been untrue.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
But talk about just taking my emotions from the highest
highs to the lowest instantly, Danielle.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm going to ask chat GPT hold on, please.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Oh God, it will know very quickly.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yes, Boy Meets World was aired on Nickelodeon and later
on Nick at Night. It originally from on ABC and
found a second life and syndication on Nickelodeon starting in
two thousand, before eventually moving to Nick at Night.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Thank you, Chat GPT. Not a liar.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I'm not a liar.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Coming back here we go. So it's all been good
vibes so far. We've been set in the aura. Yeah,
there are some people who don't feel the same way Danny.
Speaker 16 (19:22):
Though this is Danny and I have been a lifelong
Boy Meets World fan. In fact, I had a sleeve
over watching the series finale with my best friend. However,
and then there was Sean is my least favorite episode
if there's any episode that I skip it. And then
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there was Sean. I'm not a fan of horror. I
think that it was an absolute romp. I think there's
tropes in it that were completely un Boy Meets World.
Like I hated the references to people being virgins and
not virgins when I was a kid and even still
to this day, Like, I just it's the one I
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want to skip. The only redeeming quality of And then
there was Sean.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
For me is Jennifer love hewittt.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
This This person hates it, hates it, and the only
person they like on the show is somebody not from
the show.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
What's to hate so much about it? Hating the references
to being a virgin? What's the deal there?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, well, I mean to take criticism, gotta take criticism.
I do not not Well, all right, all right, all right,
I'll bring back the good vibes. This is Athena, and
she's from a place we know very well.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Hi.
Speaker 17 (20:43):
My name is Athena and I'm from Connecticut, the best
state by the way. Anyway, I absolutely love this episode.
I really think it is a masterclass in rompy comedic
sitcom writing. I wasn't too scared the first time I
saw it because I was fifteen, but I will say
the moment when the mask figure crosses directly in front
of the camera when everyone is turned away made me
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jump so hard the first time I saw it. It's
truly a level of scary I was not prepared for
at the time. Anyway, if I had to have a
hot take about this episode, I would say that I
wish that at the beginning they would have been studying
the play and then there were none with mister Feenie,
and it would have pertained to their out of the
classroom situation like they had done in other episodes, or
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dream situation in this case. But it's also a testament
to the writers that they don't underestimate their audience's intelligence.
I also feel like that makes me feel respected as
an audience member, that you expect me to read what
you're putting down and what you're referencing. Anyway, Thanks, love
the pod.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But smart a good constructive criticism.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
She's from Connecticut, so she thinks on a different level
than most people. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, she gets that that butter churning.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well, we've got a lot of that farm.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
We got a lot of time for the wheels has
been you know, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well with the wheel's only been there for about one
hundred years. So yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But we did get a lot of messages that started
off by being like, hey, this is Doug from Detroit.
Drop a pin will uh?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I like knowing where people are. It's okay, that was good.
Oh that would have been It would have been good
if it did pertain to something in the episode.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Interesting, Yeah really smart?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah yeah all right, Sorry, got to bring it back
to a little bit of a negativity. Here's ope, I
got Nelly. Negative Nelly.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Here she is, Hey, Pod meets World, it's Nelly from Cleveland.
I've got to say, and this might be an unpopular opinion,
but and then there was Sean is not one of my.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Favorite Boy Meets World episodes.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
I think it's because I really don't want it to
be funny. And I know that that sounds crazy to
want out of a Boy Meets World episode, which always
brings such incredible comic relief, But I wish it would
have committed a little bit deeper to that scary killer storyline.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
When I first watched this episode when it came out,
I was.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Eight years old.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
And then a few years later I watched it again
and thought to myself, I wish it would actually be scarier.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Wow, well try interesting that to uh, to Courtney or
anybody else.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, Courtney or Danielle or I mean, there were a
lot of people who were Actually I was thinking about
it too when I was taking when I was editing
all these calls down, this might be the first horror
that a lot of people have had seen, right if.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You were you're nine or ten or eight?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeahn like the bubble bath girl. Yeah yeah, cute by
the way from England.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
No cute that a seven year old was like self
caring with a bubble bath.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That's just the cutest image to me.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Well, that's I'm assuming I'm at say, yeah, that does
sound weird, but I'm also assuming that the parents probably
set up though it's not like she's in there with candles, like,
what a day. Oh no, Daniel, I have to fingerpaint
one more thing.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I got Ah, you're you're imagining Eloise in the hotel,
just like living her life.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Who's Eloise?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Eloise who lives in the Plaza Plaza.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
She lives in the Plaza Hotel.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
There's a portrait of her still there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, this is what happens when you have two boys.
You don't know who Louise is.
Speaker 17 (24:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
El Louise is a story about a girl who grows
up at the Plaza who lives at the Plaza Hotel
in New York.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I've never heard of the book, but I do know
about the corduroy bear with the missing a button and the.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Paddington. No is that the bear? Yeah Paddington, Sure, sure bear.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But she knows she knows all the good.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Bellaqeen rabbit another great one. I know that I know
that a rabbit made of cheese. Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Back to Boy meets World slight hot take from our
friend Lais Wait.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I just want to go back you Velvida.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
It's by the way in the book. I think it
gets polio, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, he does, and he dies cheese.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
That's all that is right there. Thank god.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
The velveta bunny in all fairness, I think that's from Friends.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Very funny wherever wherever you stole it made me laugh.
Hi everyone, my name is Larissa.
Speaker 18 (25:15):
And not only is Podmeet's World my favorite podcast, but
boy means World is my favorite show of all time
and I have been waiting to recap and then there
was Sean. My favorite parts of this episode are the
death jingles that the intercom plays, and obviously Kenny's death.
But my one hot take from this episode is how
can books falling off a bookshelf kill you? And should
(25:36):
I be perpetually afraid of libraries? Because I think I am?
And Larissa dismissed.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yes, that is a that is not even a hot take.
We mentioned it as well. Yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We had some really scary debts. A pencil through the forehead,
which would.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Make it one scissors in the back great one.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
How did the janitor who was in the trash candor you.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Never really say he's just dead in the in.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The bin, so okay, let's say heart attack. All those
are scary, and then we have five books.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, in all fairness, they looked like they were thick
books and they're from the top shelf. Yeah, and both
love and I have the cranium of a soft newborn bird.
So that is also one of the reasons that a
lot of people didn't know that about us. So yes,
of soft, soft, soft soft brains.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay, now that we have that backstory, it makes a
lot more sense speaking.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Of soft brains. And I don't mean him, I just
mean he didn't like the episode, so we could question
his brain.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
This is Hunter.
Speaker 19 (26:35):
Oh no, hey guys, my name is Hunter Bell. I'm
from Charlotte, North Carolina. Boy Meets the World is my
favorite show of all time, has been ever since I
was a little kid. It is as a thirty two
year old man, and it will be when I'm eighty two.
So thank you for all the memories and just an
amazing part of my life. But I'm also a middle
school teacher, so a lot of that has to do
(26:57):
with mister Feenie and you guys, and wow, my laptop
has a sticker that says I love you all. Class dismissed.
But when it comes to episodes like this, these are
ones I typically skip like I don't like actually, whenever
you guys go back in time, I don't like the
episodes where it's just completely unrealistic. Look at the ninety sitcom,
(27:19):
the whole thing's unrealistic. But the ones will you guys
go back in time or have dreams or whatever it is,
where it's not any chance of being reality, that's when
I skip.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Okay, I can see that. Yeah, I can see that.
It can I guess, take you out of the world
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So, yeah, I can see how if what you really
really love about it is that every week you feel
like a little bit of your life is on the screen,
and memories and experiences you had in life lessons, And
then you go, do I want to.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Watch them in nineteen forty two, No, I'll skip that.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I guess I could see how Scream could then, and
then there Rashaan could fall into a category where you go,
I don't need to I don't need to watch this one.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I get that. But then again, Hunter, it's a romp.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's a rom Hunter, it's a ninety sitcom a romp.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Hunter. No, I get that too. I can understand. I
have that with certain Mash episodes that I just skip
favorite shows you.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
If I were a Boy Meets World super fan, my
thing would be to skip it during my regular rewatches,
but to watch it every year around Halloween.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I think I would.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I think I would once a year in the Halloween
season make it part of my We're going to.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Do our annual. And then there was Sean rewatch.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah you're you're not a boy Metrild super fan.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I am becoming one.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I could be honest as someone who had never watched
the show and this is my first run through. I
kind of agree with our friend Hunter there. I think
that if I pick my favorite episodes, it's ones that
live in the universe. Outside universe are fine. I just
would never put them in my favorite episode.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I get that it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
While we're talking about hot takes, here's our friend Paul.
Speaker 20 (29:10):
Hey, guys, my name is Paul from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
Longtime listener, first time caller. I have a hot take
on that library scene in the library that we never
see again. I know this is a daydream and everything
for Sean, but how about those books falling down and
(29:31):
killing Fufi or Fefy or whatever her name is an Eric,
I think it's hilarious because it's you know, at most
it's just a minor inconvenience, but in Shawn's headed, it's
killing people. So I think that's pretty funny. But anyway,
I love you all. Paul dismissed.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You know, I hadn't ever thought about the idea that
in a Sean dream books killing the weight of books
could kill you.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
That's kind of great, like it.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I actually like thinking about it that way now, Like
the library is a very dangerous place.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't go there.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, that's kind of other than Paul dismissed, being probably
the best of the goodbyes of these calls. I did
hear that and think that take is actually pretty great.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
It is.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I'll go one better now if we're now we're putting
it all in Shawn's head, which is a whole new
way of thinking about it. If the janitor did die
of a heart attack, his dad was the janitor too,
who also ends up dying of the heart attack. Yeah, yeah,
the oh.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You remember that, and he fries his dad in the
trash can.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Right right, yes, yes, I think on Sesame Street.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Right here it is John O Fleming.
Speaker 21 (30:49):
So this episode was one of the first things I
ever saw that had anything to do with the horror genre.
I grew up pretty conservative and wasn't really allowed to
watch anything violent or scary, but anything on Disney Channel
was fair game. So this and Don't Look Under the
Bed or the two things I watched that really scared
me as a kid on Disney Channel. Thing that stuck
(31:09):
out to me the first time I watched it was
that first kill with Kenny, Like I was messed up
after watching that.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
I was.
Speaker 21 (31:15):
I had never seen anyone get killed on screen like that,
And then of course the joke afterwards. I will always
remember he was this tall. Pretty well, Resent represents that
episode as a whole, I think, because it's creepy one
moment that it makes you laugh the next, and especially
as a kid like I was probably like seven or eight,
it was kind of a nice little introduction to the
horror genre. And now I'm a big horror fan slasher fan,
(31:38):
so I credit a lot of that to this episode.
Speaker 19 (31:41):
For sure, I.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Mean, unbelievable, that's cool, yeap.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
You probably can never use a pencil again. He became
a pen guy like right away.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, certainly, not a giant pencil.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Not a giant pencil, which we need to start getting
some giant pencils.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I know you're right at our merch.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Last clip, I wanted to leave it on sort of
a nice touch. This is Anna and yeah, I think
this is a kind of a nice overview of what
most people thought about. And then there was Sean.
Speaker 22 (32:06):
Okay, I'll keep this brief, but it's just to say that,
and then there was Sean is the most important episode
of television of my entire childhood. My parents recorded it
on a VHS and my sister cousin and I would
watch and quote it all the time. My sister and
I have a pretty tough relationship these days, but if
we can't find anything to talk about, we'll randomly just
(32:28):
blurt out. We'll always remember he was this tall and
bust out laughing along with every other quote, Like I can,
I can truly quote that entire episode, start to finish,
everyone's lines. Truly a masterpiece, start to finish. I cherished
this episode and all of Boy Meets World greatly.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Oh so sweet it is that.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
It's so nice to know that even if you have
a tough relationship with somebody, you can always find common
ground with them with something you shared as kids or
something you both loved, and for you and your sister,
it's not only Boy meets World, but specifically and then
there was Sean, and that's so sweet. So I'm glad
that Boy Meets World saved you guys from killing each other.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I think, is what I heard. What I heard in.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
That message, you would have murdered each other if not
for and then there was Sean.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
And said you watched us murder each other and that
brought you together, and.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
That's what brought you together. So happy to contribute.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Well, we want to thank everybody who sent in a voicemail.
There are thousands of you, and you know I had
to go through a lot of them, and so I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Jensen.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
No no worries, but it meant a lot for I
know me, even just as a producer, to hear what
the podcast and what the show means to you guys.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
So thanks so much, Thank you so much for all
your messages. We'll make sure writer listens to this episode
so that he can hear them as well.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
He doesn't remember he's on a podcast, we will have
to remind him he's teaching. He's teaching, he's teaching.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Mode.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's Yeah, what a fun week of celebrating, and then
there was Sean. So even if you hated it, thanks
for letting us know. Thanks for celebrating Boy Meets World
with us as always, will send us out.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
We love you all, I dismissed. Podmets World is nheart
podcast producer and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and Ryder
Strong executive producers, Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman Executive in
charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor, Tara Sudbaksh producer,
Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen.
(34:23):
Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon and
you can follow us on Instagram at Podmeats World Show
or email us at Podmetsworldshow at gmail dot com
Okay, guys, I know you have very little prep for this,
but I am very excited. I, as the keeper of
the audio, have have some special messages for you too.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh okay, we should.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We at least explain why Writer isn't here, since the
messages are also for Writer.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Well, sure, we don't like him. I think it's time
to get that out. I think it's time to.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Just it's been so obvious.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
It's been so obvious. I've wanted to say that to
him since when did we air nine?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
When?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Nineteen ninety three? Yeah, four days before that in nineteen
ninety three is when I wanted to say to Writer enough.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, Writer is a teacher.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
He is a proper and he has lectures, and he
was so kind to do that so much episode for us. Yes,
and so we are doing a duo episode and giving
him a quick break.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But we will relay all of these messages to him.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We will. Yeah, well we'll handwrite them, we'll manuscript it,
it'll hand it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Over, a bird will send it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah. So what we did, and I know you guys
are aware of this, is we went to our social
media with and then there was Sean approaching and we
know that that is a lot of people's favorite Boy
Meets World episode. Ever, Yes, yeah, we've heard it many times.
It feels like maybe the most costumes that we saw
while on tour, or maybe from the screen episode. You
guys have regularly answered that it was the most fun
(01:37):
episode to tape. Yeah, So we asked listeners of pod
Meats World to send us audio clips with either how
much they loved it and how it's their favorite episode,
or how it's not their favorite episode, or just their
own hot takes on the situation.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Okay, great, we have people saying it's not their favorite episode.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What brother jin We got a bunch of them. But yeah,
do you want that's a good question. Actually, guys, do
you want to start with someone who loves it or
someone who doesn't think it's the best one?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Good question? Well what would you why?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I say surprise us. I say surprise us.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's a good idea, Just surprise.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Just surprise us.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Let's start with Courtney, who sent us a voice memo
and she had some feelings about it.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
I am of the generation that watched Boy's World on
Disney Channel after the original airing. I was born in
nineteen ninety and I will say that. And then there
was Sean. Seemed to always play late at night when
I could have sleep, and then I would watch it
and I would definitely not be able to sleep. I
had a cousin who's year younger than me, who loved
(02:45):
scary things and was so scared of And then there
was Sean. We call it The Scary Boys World. We
don't call it by the title. It's just The Scary
Boyis World. And even at thirty four years old, I
am not quite sure. I want to watch that episod
by myself in a dark room, but nothing, It's still scary.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I mean, I am surprised by how many messages
we got of people who purely one hundred percent are
terrified when they thought as a kid, well.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Because they were kids. I mean again, think about you're
watching it, you're ten or eleven, You've got Feenie being
snabbed in the back. Those songs are super creepy. Yeah,
it was weird, I mean, but you know it was
good though.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right, here's here's Felicia's similar vibes.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
So I watched and then there was Sean when I
was twelve years old, and the night that it aired,
I was having a sleepover at my house with a
couple of girlfriends, and of course, at twelve years old,
we just thought it was scary and fun and just
loved it and we felt so cool watching it. And
I remember when it was over, we were going down
(03:53):
the hall to get ready for bed, and my dad
thought it would be hilarious to go cut the power
to the break her system for the whole house, and
I just remember screaming and being so scared because we
had just watched this episode. And of course then my
dad turned the power back on and we all had
a really good laugh. But it's just one of those
fun memories. I look back super fondly on this episode
(04:15):
and it's quintessential appointments world.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Okay, so it just goes to show you you are
either a Courtney or you are a Felicia. Because Felicia's
dad cut the power, I would have been scared to death,
and she was. But then theara all had a good
laugh and it's like a core memory of hers. And
then there's Courtney, who watched it one.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Time and that today has never been able to watch
it again.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I love stories like that. My brother, my brother and
his friends were watching The Exorcist at our house when
they were like thirteen and we had just gotten a
brand new TV. And one of the things this TV had,
which none of us knew because it didn't exist at
the time until these TVs came out, was a sleep timer.
Oh yes, which he did not know what it was,
so he had sat under remote control before he turned
(05:03):
on Exorcists. So sixty minutes into Exorcists, it started to
blink thirty twenty nine, twenty eight, and it counted down
till it shut off. Oh and when this happened in
nineteen eighty five or whatever it was, it was a revelation. Oh,
my brother has never been the same ever since.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Hilarious.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Thank you Felicia, and thank you Felicia's dad for making
that fun.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yes, I do have one crazy story like that. There
was a six Feet Under episode that was very, very
scary where one of the characters got carjacked and tortured
for the entire like hour show, and it's like it
kind of went out of format and it was super scary,
and I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I had
bad dreams about it. And the next day, the absolute
next day, I ran into the actor who was the backer.
(05:45):
Oh my god, and he was weird and it was
like it was he didn't act a lot in the show.
It was just very much him. See yeah. Very next day,
while we're on the terrified subject, this is Danielle.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Hi.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
My name is Danielle. I'm from Boston, Massachusetts. I remember
being ten years old and watching this episode of Boy
Meets World and then there was Sean, and I remember truly,
truly being extremely scared of it. I was not a
horror movie fan. I had never seen a scary movie before,
except maybe Jumanji, and I was truly very scared, to
(06:25):
the point where at the last commercial break, I ran
upstairs and begged my brother to please come watch this
episode with me because I couldn't finish it by myself.
I was too scared, and he was busy or watching
something else, so he said no, So I turned it off.
I couldn't finish it. I was too scared. And then,
many many years later, in reruns, I finally got to
(06:48):
see the ending, and to this day it's my favorite episode.
It should win all the Emmys.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I love.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
And then there was Sean.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Wow. I like that idea.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I think we should I think there should maybe every
five years there should be an Emmy Awards that's just
old episodes.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
We think you missed the retroactive Emmys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yes, retroactive Emmys.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I love that idea.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Why don't How did I mean, if you think about it,
you could argue Bill Daniels could have been nominated for
Boy Meetrol I.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Think one hundred percent yep, and no one would look
at it because you were a kids show.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Rusty could have been nominated for Boy meetorl I mean really,
there were plenty of opportunities for our show that we
never got because we were a quote unquote kid show.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Retroactive Emmys.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's scary, Okay, imagine being nicky.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Oh no, I was around eight years old when I watched,
and then there was Sean on TV, and all I
remember was running into Will and at the time Jennifer
Love at the Burbank Mall, literally a week after the
show aired, and my brother and I, who have been
(07:59):
such big fans of the show, we're like just freaking
out seeing the two of them in person after watching
that episode, and it'll forever be a core memory because
both were just so nice to us and very friendly
asking us if we were fans of the show, and
we told them that we were excited to see literally
probably the best episode of Boy Meets World Pod Meets World.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You guys rock, Oh awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
So what happened to you with the carjacker? Happened to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Happened to her?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I wonder if you guys were aggressively making out just
in the middle.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Of the food court, just hot dog and a stick
on one hand and love Hewett and my other that'd
be great.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
My favorite part of that is that immediately I knew
it was real. I was like, ball, Yeah, when Danielle
like online someone like I met Danielle Fisher once. It
was at the Islands in Orange, and I was like, definitely,
what happened?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's a true story.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, the Red Robin in Calabasash you better you met
here there. Another scary message we got is from Aaron,
and it's mostly just reminding us how old we are.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
I had this episode playing on my MySpace page back
in the day, and that should just tell you everything
you need to know.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Play an episode on MySpace.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Think you could run like a video, like when someone
goes on your page I think you can automatically start
you get to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Like geez, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Well she never did MySpace or Facebook in my entire
life ever once. Yep, I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You do have bloom or Facebook vibes, though, so I'm
surprised you never signed up.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Never one time, Nope, never one Time's.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Here's Natalie, who really took her love for the episode
one step further than anything else I've ever heard of.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Hi there, this is Natalie calling in from Milwaukee. I
was actually born in nineteen ninety four, but became obsessed
with Burmeet's World, I guess through the Disney Channel reruns
of the early two thousands, and it was super popular
at my school, so much so that specifically with and
then there was Sean, Me and a group of like
(10:04):
seven other kids performed a ten minute version of the
episode that we cut. I don't know that's a copyright issue,
so so sorry if it is. But we were eleven,
so it was not that good, and it got a
really great response from what I remember, so it's just
so iconic. I think it's probably the perfect Halloween episode.
(10:27):
But anyway, thank you so much love the pod and
much love to you guys.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, sorry, I hate to tell you, but I'm going
to have to go back and sue you.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I was just about to say we love you, and
you'll be hearing from our lawyers sending.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You a season desist immediately.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
No, you are love and.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's so the talent show. Way to take it up
a notch.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I love that they were. We were like big in
the school at the time we were, and again that
I think that's kind of normal. I guess second run Disney.
I think we were more popular on our second run
than we were on our first.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But I don't know, but that think we were because
a lot of people like that. We run into hall
at a Disney.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Show, right, yes, yeah, just go to the channel man
Power Disney Channel.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And you guys Got Another Life. Then on MTV two
and then on like ABC Family and like you I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And now Disney Plus we're gonna be Gilligan's Island. We're
going to be on somewhere for Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We're on Nicked night, right we were we?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, isn't that cool? Well, I know it's cool. Yeah,
that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Wow, while we're talking about schools, here is Maddie.
Speaker 12 (11:43):
Hello to my truly favorite podcast as ever.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Danielle will and Ryder.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
I'm a high school English teacher in Australia and my
year eight students's next assessment was to write their own
play based on the mystery genre. So I showed them
and then there was sean because it just perfectly laid
out the typical mystery genre of conventions such as foreshadowing clues,
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a detective type character, red herrings, the pacing, and a
big reveal at the end that I forgot how scary
the episode actually is. I had about four students let
out a really loud gasp and even sort of shut
their eyes when the killer was wandering the corridors. But overall,
(12:32):
the students absolutely loved the episode. They were silent when
it was on, which is a huge rarity for them,
which was awesome.
Speaker 13 (12:42):
So thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Man. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's so cool?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
That's showing us in an Australian classroom.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh no, And I love that kids were actually gasping.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Gasping, yes, oh man. In Australia, the horror goes in
the opposite direction, right.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It starts with the killing and then he learned the
killer you.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Learn exactly so oh man, that's so cool, just tough.
Sometimes I forget that we're watched all over the world
like that and it's so neat.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
We did get a lot of messages, and by the way,
I guess it is worth noting we got thousands of messages.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, wow, I had.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
To go through them. Another funny part about this, our
merch company emailed us and told us their mailbox is
full of audio messages, so like they couldn't even get
direct inquiries because so many people had just accidentally emailed
our merch company. What I have no idea. Between Matt
(13:46):
and the Peanut Butter and Jelly debacle, we have Susan's fault.
We had like four or five thousand new emails, which
is really nuts. Let's stay in school here for a second.
(14:12):
Here's Lauren Hi.
Speaker 13 (14:13):
Danielle Hi Will Hi writer. My name's Lauren. I'm a
huge fan of the pod and a boy meets World's
super fan.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It is my mash. I absolutely love.
Speaker 13 (14:22):
And then there was Sean.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I think it's a great episode.
Speaker 13 (14:24):
It's fun, it's spooky, it's campy, there's some Halloween vibes.
I love that there's a horror movie parody element to it.
I think that's really fun. But my particular specific memory,
I guess rather about this episode is being eight years
old and seeing it for the first time and absolutely
loving it, and deciding to draw some scenes from this
episode on a piece of paper at school, along with
(14:46):
the lyrics to that song that plays in the hallway,
the welcome to John Adams High song, and I foolishly
left this behind for a teacher to find with no context.
I don't think it helped that this was relatively soon
after the Columbine tragedy. Oh, so I was dragged into
the guidance counselor's office the next day.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
My parents were there.
Speaker 13 (15:05):
Everybody was kind of tense, and I just had to
simply explain to them, Hey, this is from my favorite
TV show, Boy Meets World, and they all breathed the
sigh of relief.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Oh my, no, man, the greatest. That's the greatest story
of somebody having a childhood experience based on an episode
of Boy's World I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh wow, welcome Juja and Adams.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Hi where you are Gonna die?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Hold on, let me introduce you to Josha.
Speaker 14 (15:37):
No oh, Shawnee boy. The ghost, the ghost was calling.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
From room to room.
Speaker 14 (15:48):
You barely made it out alive, but when you saw
your face, your family saved your grace and then you
made it out a love. Best boy means world ever,
(16:10):
best episode ever, best twist ever.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Keep it up, y'all, rock What song is that he made?
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Danny?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He made it up for but he put it to
Danny Boy. Oh, Danny Boy, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The commitment.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I love the commitment. You know us, we love it.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You're right, he may be committed after that. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, And we go across the pond again.
This is for Abigail.
Speaker 15 (16:39):
Hi, guys, it's Abigail from Derbyshire in the UK. I
would have been watching Boy Meets Field on the Disney Channel,
as that was the channel it aired on in the UK.
It was always on at six point thirty pm every evening.
So whenever I think of Boy meets Field, I always
think of having a bubble bath, getting in my pajamas
and going to bed. I should clarify that I'm not
(17:00):
thirty two years old, so I'm talking about a time
when I was seven years old, which is when I
started watching the show I remember being completely captivated by
and then there was Sean. I think it was the
first time I'd ever seen something with a key juxtaposition
of horror and comedy elements, and just remember really loving
(17:20):
it from start to finish. I did remember thinking at
the time, though, surely it's got to be a two
part of tonight, because I don't see how they were
going to wrap everything up in twenty minutes, and I
remember being really tense, hoping I wouldn't have to wait
until the next night to find out what happened or
find out what the twist was. Weirdly, I actually ended
up studying film studies in college, which I know Rider
(17:42):
will be pleased to hear, and I always opted for
the modules related to horror and was really interested in
that intersection of horror, comedy and pop culture and just
the whole idea of storytelling in general. And I now
actually work in marketing, so I do use those skills
most days and say thanks. And then there was Sean
(18:03):
for kickstarting something creative in me.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Geez, that's awesome. I don't buy the accent, but the
rest of it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Also, we're not telling you writer or anything no.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
No, writer, I'll never hear these. No, that's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Ever since I said we were on Nick at Night,
I started to doubt myself. I'm ninety nine percent sure
I remember hearing we were.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Are we not on nickod Knight?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, then we did.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I did a quick Google search to see if I
could if I could find it, and I haven't really
been able to find it. So now I'm worried I
just said something that was untrue. And you know, nothing
keeps me awake at night. Then if I think I
accidentally said something that may have been untrue.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
But talk about just taking my emotions from the highest
highs to the lowest instantly, Danielle.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm going to ask chat GPT hold on, please.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Oh God, it will know very quickly.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yes, Boy Meets World was aired on Nickelodeon and later
on Nick at Night. It originally from on ABC and
found a second life and syndication on Nickelodeon starting in
two thousand, before eventually moving to Nick at Night.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Thank you, Chat GPT. Not a liar.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I'm not a liar.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Coming back here we go. So it's all been good
vibes so far. We've been set in the aura. Yeah,
there are some people who don't feel the same way Danny.
Speaker 16 (19:22):
Though this is Danny and I have been a lifelong
Boy Meets World fan. In fact, I had a sleeve
over watching the series finale with my best friend. However,
and then there was Sean is my least favorite episode
if there's any episode that I skip it. And then
(19:43):
there was Sean. I'm not a fan of horror. I
think that it was an absolute romp. I think there's
tropes in it that were completely un Boy Meets World.
Like I hated the references to people being virgins and
not virgins when I was a kid and even still
to this day, Like, I just it's the one I
(20:04):
want to skip. The only redeeming quality of And then
there was Sean.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
For me is Jennifer love hewittt.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
This This person hates it, hates it, and the only
person they like on the show is somebody not from
the show.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
What's to hate so much about it? Hating the references
to being a virgin? What's the deal there?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, well, I mean to take criticism, gotta take criticism.
I do not not Well, all right, all right, all right,
I'll bring back the good vibes. This is Athena, and
she's from a place we know very well.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Hi.
Speaker 17 (20:43):
My name is Athena and I'm from Connecticut, the best
state by the way. Anyway, I absolutely love this episode.
I really think it is a masterclass in rompy comedic
sitcom writing. I wasn't too scared the first time I
saw it because I was fifteen, but I will say
the moment when the mask figure crosses directly in front
of the camera when everyone is turned away made me
(21:04):
jump so hard the first time I saw it. It's
truly a level of scary I was not prepared for
at the time. Anyway, if I had to have a
hot take about this episode, I would say that I
wish that at the beginning they would have been studying
the play and then there were none with mister Feenie,
and it would have pertained to their out of the
classroom situation like they had done in other episodes, or
(21:25):
dream situation in this case. But it's also a testament
to the writers that they don't underestimate their audience's intelligence.
I also feel like that makes me feel respected as
an audience member, that you expect me to read what
you're putting down and what you're referencing. Anyway, Thanks, love
the pod.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But smart a good constructive criticism.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
She's from Connecticut, so she thinks on a different level
than most people. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, she gets that that butter churning.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well, we've got a lot of that farm.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
We got a lot of time for the wheels has
been you know, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well with the wheel's only been there for about one
hundred years. So yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But we did get a lot of messages that started
off by being like, hey, this is Doug from Detroit.
Drop a pin will uh?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I like knowing where people are. It's okay, that was good.
Oh that would have been It would have been good
if it did pertain to something in the episode.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Interesting, Yeah really smart?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah yeah all right, Sorry, got to bring it back
to a little bit of a negativity. Here's ope, I
got Nelly. Negative Nelly.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Here she is, Hey, Pod meets World, it's Nelly from Cleveland.
I've got to say, and this might be an unpopular opinion,
but and then there was Sean is not one of my.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Favorite Boy Meets World episodes.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
I think it's because I really don't want it to
be funny. And I know that that sounds crazy to
want out of a Boy Meets World episode, which always
brings such incredible comic relief, But I wish it would
have committed a little bit deeper to that scary killer storyline.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
When I first watched this episode when it came out,
I was.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Eight years old.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
And then a few years later I watched it again
and thought to myself, I wish it would actually be scarier.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Wow, well try interesting that to uh, to Courtney or
anybody else.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, Courtney or Danielle or I mean, there were a
lot of people who were Actually I was thinking about
it too when I was taking when I was editing
all these calls down, this might be the first horror
that a lot of people have had seen, right if.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You were you're nine or ten or eight?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeahn like the bubble bath girl. Yeah yeah, cute by
the way from England.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
No cute that a seven year old was like self
caring with a bubble bath.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That's just the cutest image to me.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Well, that's I'm assuming I'm at say, yeah, that does
sound weird, but I'm also assuming that the parents probably
set up though it's not like she's in there with candles, like,
what a day. Oh no, Daniel, I have to fingerpaint
one more thing.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I got Ah, you're you're imagining Eloise in the hotel,
just like living her life.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Who's Eloise?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Eloise who lives in the Plaza Plaza.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
She lives in the Plaza Hotel.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
There's a portrait of her still there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, this is what happens when you have two boys.
You don't know who Louise is.
Speaker 17 (24:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
El Louise is a story about a girl who grows
up at the Plaza who lives at the Plaza Hotel
in New York.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I've never heard of the book, but I do know
about the corduroy bear with the missing a button and the.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Paddington. No is that the bear? Yeah Paddington, Sure, sure bear.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But she knows she knows all the good.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Bellaqeen rabbit another great one. I know that I know
that a rabbit made of cheese. Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Back to Boy meets World slight hot take from our
friend Lais Wait.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I just want to go back you Velvida.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
It's by the way in the book. I think it
gets polio, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, he does, and he dies cheese.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
That's all that is right there. Thank god.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
The velveta bunny in all fairness, I think that's from Friends.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Very funny wherever wherever you stole it made me laugh.
Hi everyone, my name is Larissa.
Speaker 18 (25:15):
And not only is Podmeet's World my favorite podcast, but
boy means World is my favorite show of all time
and I have been waiting to recap and then there
was Sean. My favorite parts of this episode are the
death jingles that the intercom plays, and obviously Kenny's death.
But my one hot take from this episode is how
can books falling off a bookshelf kill you? And should
(25:36):
I be perpetually afraid of libraries? Because I think I am?
And Larissa dismissed.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yes, that is a that is not even a hot take.
We mentioned it as well. Yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We had some really scary debts. A pencil through the forehead,
which would.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Make it one scissors in the back great one.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
How did the janitor who was in the trash candor you.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Never really say he's just dead in the in.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The bin, so okay, let's say heart attack. All those
are scary, and then we have five books.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, in all fairness, they looked like they were thick
books and they're from the top shelf. Yeah, and both
love and I have the cranium of a soft newborn bird.
So that is also one of the reasons that a
lot of people didn't know that about us. So yes,
of soft, soft, soft soft brains.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay, now that we have that backstory, it makes a
lot more sense speaking.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Of soft brains. And I don't mean him, I just
mean he didn't like the episode, so we could question
his brain.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
This is Hunter.
Speaker 19 (26:35):
Oh no, hey guys, my name is Hunter Bell. I'm
from Charlotte, North Carolina. Boy Meets the World is my
favorite show of all time, has been ever since I
was a little kid. It is as a thirty two
year old man, and it will be when I'm eighty two.
So thank you for all the memories and just an
amazing part of my life. But I'm also a middle
school teacher, so a lot of that has to do
(26:57):
with mister Feenie and you guys, and wow, my laptop
has a sticker that says I love you all. Class dismissed.
But when it comes to episodes like this, these are
ones I typically skip like I don't like actually, whenever
you guys go back in time, I don't like the
episodes where it's just completely unrealistic. Look at the ninety sitcom,
(27:19):
the whole thing's unrealistic. But the ones will you guys
go back in time or have dreams or whatever it is,
where it's not any chance of being reality, that's when
I skip.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Okay, I can see that. Yeah, I can see that.
It can I guess, take you out of the world
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So, yeah, I can see how if what you really
really love about it is that every week you feel
like a little bit of your life is on the screen,
and memories and experiences you had in life lessons, And
then you go, do I want to.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Watch them in nineteen forty two, No, I'll skip that.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I guess I could see how Scream could then, and
then there Rashaan could fall into a category where you go,
I don't need to I don't need to watch this one.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I get that. But then again, Hunter, it's a romp.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's a rom Hunter, it's a ninety sitcom a romp.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Hunter. No, I get that too. I can understand. I
have that with certain Mash episodes that I just skip
favorite shows you.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
If I were a Boy Meets World super fan, my
thing would be to skip it during my regular rewatches,
but to watch it every year around Halloween.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I think I would.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I think I would once a year in the Halloween
season make it part of my We're going to.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Do our annual. And then there was Sean rewatch.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah you're you're not a boy Metrild super fan.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I am becoming one.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I could be honest as someone who had never watched
the show and this is my first run through. I
kind of agree with our friend Hunter there. I think
that if I pick my favorite episodes, it's ones that
live in the universe. Outside universe are fine. I just
would never put them in my favorite episode.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I get that it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
While we're talking about hot takes, here's our friend Paul.
Speaker 20 (29:10):
Hey, guys, my name is Paul from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
Longtime listener, first time caller. I have a hot take
on that library scene in the library that we never
see again. I know this is a daydream and everything
for Sean, but how about those books falling down and
(29:31):
killing Fufi or Fefy or whatever her name is an Eric,
I think it's hilarious because it's you know, at most
it's just a minor inconvenience, but in Shawn's headed, it's
killing people. So I think that's pretty funny. But anyway,
I love you all. Paul dismissed.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You know, I hadn't ever thought about the idea that
in a Sean dream books killing the weight of books
could kill you.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
That's kind of great, like it.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I actually like thinking about it that way now, Like
the library is a very dangerous place.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't go there.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, that's kind of other than Paul dismissed, being probably
the best of the goodbyes of these calls. I did
hear that and think that take is actually pretty great.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
It is.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I'll go one better now if we're now we're putting
it all in Shawn's head, which is a whole new
way of thinking about it. If the janitor did die
of a heart attack, his dad was the janitor too,
who also ends up dying of the heart attack. Yeah, yeah,
the oh.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You remember that, and he fries his dad in the
trash can.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Right right, yes, yes, I think on Sesame Street.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Right here it is John O Fleming.
Speaker 21 (30:49):
So this episode was one of the first things I
ever saw that had anything to do with the horror genre.
I grew up pretty conservative and wasn't really allowed to
watch anything violent or scary, but anything on Disney Channel
was fair game. So this and Don't Look Under the
Bed or the two things I watched that really scared
me as a kid on Disney Channel. Thing that stuck
(31:09):
out to me the first time I watched it was
that first kill with Kenny, Like I was messed up
after watching that.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
I was.
Speaker 21 (31:15):
I had never seen anyone get killed on screen like that,
And then of course the joke afterwards. I will always
remember he was this tall. Pretty well, Resent represents that
episode as a whole, I think, because it's creepy one
moment that it makes you laugh the next, and especially
as a kid like I was probably like seven or eight,
it was kind of a nice little introduction to the
horror genre. And now I'm a big horror fan slasher fan,
(31:38):
so I credit a lot of that to this episode.
Speaker 19 (31:41):
For sure, I.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Mean, unbelievable, that's cool, yeap.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
You probably can never use a pencil again. He became
a pen guy like right away.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, certainly, not a giant pencil.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Not a giant pencil, which we need to start getting
some giant pencils.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I know you're right at our merch.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Last clip, I wanted to leave it on sort of
a nice touch. This is Anna and yeah, I think
this is a kind of a nice overview of what
most people thought about. And then there was Sean.
Speaker 22 (32:06):
Okay, I'll keep this brief, but it's just to say that,
and then there was Sean is the most important episode
of television of my entire childhood. My parents recorded it
on a VHS and my sister cousin and I would
watch and quote it all the time. My sister and
I have a pretty tough relationship these days, but if
we can't find anything to talk about, we'll randomly just
(32:28):
blurt out. We'll always remember he was this tall and
bust out laughing along with every other quote, Like I can,
I can truly quote that entire episode, start to finish,
everyone's lines. Truly a masterpiece, start to finish. I cherished
this episode and all of Boy Meets World greatly.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Oh so sweet it is that.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
It's so nice to know that even if you have
a tough relationship with somebody, you can always find common
ground with them with something you shared as kids or
something you both loved, and for you and your sister,
it's not only Boy meets World, but specifically and then
there was Sean, and that's so sweet. So I'm glad
that Boy Meets World saved you guys from killing each other.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I think, is what I heard. What I heard in.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
That message, you would have murdered each other if not
for and then there was Sean.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
And said you watched us murder each other and that
brought you together, and.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
That's what brought you together. So happy to contribute.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Well, we want to thank everybody who sent in a voicemail.
There are thousands of you, and you know I had
to go through a lot of them, and so I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Jensen.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
No no worries, but it meant a lot for I
know me, even just as a producer, to hear what
the podcast and what the show means to you guys.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
So thanks so much, Thank you so much for all
your messages. We'll make sure writer listens to this episode
so that he can hear them as well.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
He doesn't remember he's on a podcast, we will have
to remind him he's teaching. He's teaching, he's teaching.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Mode.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's Yeah, what a fun week of celebrating, and then
there was Sean. So even if you hated it, thanks
for letting us know. Thanks for celebrating Boy Meets World
with us as always, will send us out.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
We love you all, I dismissed. Podmets World is nheart
podcast producer and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and Ryder
Strong executive producers, Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman Executive in
charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor, Tara Sudbaksh producer,
Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen.
(34:23):
Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon and
you can follow us on Instagram at Podmeats World Show
or email us at Podmetsworldshow at gmail dot com
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